Executive Summary: American Association of Clinical Chemistry Laboratory Medicine Practice Guideline—Using Clinical Laboratory Tests to Monitor Drug Therapy in Pain Management Patients

Laboratory Medicine Practice Guidelines, published by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, recommend best practices for clinical laboratories in a number of different areas of patient testing.  These guidelines are formed via a systematic review of published literature and the consensus of experts in the field with the goal of optimizing patient care.  Recently, a review of the pain management literature was undertaken in order to produce laboratory practice guidelines in this subject area.